Running Question Challenge - What is the best piece of running advice you've been given?

You can find running advice everywhere. Coaches, magazines, blogs, friends, heresay, TV, radio, running stores and podcasts. It ranges from the general, get your training in to more specific of get a good nights sleep 2 nights before a race. The advice that sticks in my head is something I heard on the podcast The Running Shoe (which I don't think is an active podcast anymore),

Tie your shoes

Start slowly

Start slowly

I, like many other runners, have a tendency to dart out of the starting gate and weave my way through runners only to come up short on energy towards the end. Not wanting to discriminate and have the shorter distances feel lesser, I do this 5K's, 10K,s and half marathons. Why leave the shorter distances out of this "bat out of hell" mentality at the beginning of a race? So I pass onto you, my advice for any race is go out slowly.

Great advice. I could have used it this weekend when I decided to go out WAY too fast for my race.My best piece of advice has been said time and time before, but I really think it's important: listen to your body.

It's all about patience. When I was running around 50 lbs heavier and no patience to work it off, my wife reminded me that I didn't seem to have a problem taking several years to add the weight on. Why can't I take a couple years to work it off?

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